Ricky Gervais slammed for joking about terminally ill children: ‘Some things are not funny’

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BBC Radio 5 Live in an interview on Wednesday.“I’m even saying I don’t do that,” he said. “Literally saying in the joke I don’t do that.”In “Armageddon,” premiering Christmas Day, Gervais refers to making videos for the Make-A-Wish foundation, which grants wishes to terminally ill children, during the pandemic — and says his first reaction to the kids is “Why didn’t you wish to get better? What, you f – – king retarded as well?”“I didn’t do that either,” he tells the live audience. “These are all jokes, all right? … I don’t burst into hospitals and go ‘Wake up baldy.

Ricky Gervais has a message for those who don’t get his humor. The comedian has finally addressed a petition that was launched to remove a controversial joke from his upcoming Netflix comedy special, Armageddon, airing on Christmas Day.

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Ricky Gervais has addressed a petition that was launched for him to remove a controversial joke from his upcoming comedy special.Armageddon, which will air on Netflix on Christmas Day, features a joke about Gervais being busy making videos for terminally ill children for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.The Office UK star shared that he makes the videos only on request, saying he doesn’t burst into hospitals and go, ‘Wake up baldy’”.He then added that he starts his videos to the children saying: “Why didn’t you wish to get better? What, you fucking ret***ed* as well?”Although he clarified that he was making a joke, many viewers were outraged at the sneak-peak of the one-hour comedy special, for which Gervais has already put out a warning, saying he discusses “sex, death, paedophilia, race, religion, disability, free speech, global warming, the holocaust, and Elton John’ in Armageddon,” adding that “if they [the audience] don’t approve of jokes about any of these things, then please don’t watch.”One viewer, who is a parent of a child who has suffered from cancer, launched a petition asking Netflix to remove the skit. The petition called Gervais “not only distasteful but also heartless” and criticised the “derogatory language” he used.It also posed the question of “how a writer or anyone at Netflix could green light such appalling content”.Now, Gervais has responded to the petition, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: “I’m literally saying in the joke that I don’t do that.

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Ricky Gervais has faced criticism after using an ableist slur in his Netflix special, Armageddon.In the upcoming special, which has been previewed through various clips on social media, the comedian jokes about making videos for terminally ill children for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.“I always start the video the same way, I go, ‘why didn’t you wish to get better?’ Gervais jokes in the clip. “What, you fucking ret***ed* as well?”Shortly afterwards, Gervais states that he doesn’t “use that word in real life”, defending his use of the word as “playing a role” for comedy purposes.After the video was posted on YouTube last week, disability equality charity Scope spoke out against the special in a statement on X.“Language like this has consequences,” they wrote.

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Ashley Cain, former star of Ex On The Beach, has criticised Ricky Gervais for making jokes about terminally ill children in his new comedy show. Ashley, who tragically lost his eight-month-old daughter Azaylia to leukaemia last year, was deeply upset by the comedian's remarks, as reported in the Mirror.

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Armageddon all over the world for a year now and earlier this spring, the British comedian entered the Guinness Book of Records for the highest gross for a single stand-up performance ever. He netted a reported £1.41 million for his show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

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